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intensively

intensively

8 3.9
With a lot of effort and attention
  • adverb
  • /ɪnˈtɛnsɪvli/
translation icon : intensamente
  • The students studied intensively for their final exams to ensure they understood all the material.
  • intensively managed
  • intensively studied
  • worked intensively

He said, we farm extensively, not intensively.

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Examples

  • Even skilled employees were often forced to work longer and more intensively if the work was available in order to sustain their living standards.

  • Common across these reforms is a focus on intervening early and intensively to address reading problems.

    Academic text (2008)
  • You mentioned having like going through periods of lots of writing intensively or reading intensively.

  • In the history of medicine, there is not a disease that has been studied as intensively as AIDS.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Yet, because of their great importance to humans, mosquitoes have been intensively studied.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Teachers are working in those educational areas and are responsible for ensuring that preschoolers learn intensively.

    Academic text (2013)
  • Since then, the curriculum has focused more intensively on biological diversity conservation and wildlife and wildland management.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Now we are farming much more intensively large swaths of our planet to feed chickens and cows and pigs.

  • Long a densely populated country, China has always had one of the most intensively exploited environments in the world.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Since controversial political issues are brought to the agenda more intensively during electoral periods, such periods can escalate political tensions.

    Academic text (2017)

Synonyms

intensely
vsintensively
88 3.1

In a very strong or focused way

concerns effort attention and concentration rather than emotional strength
diligently
vsintensively
38 4.1

In a careful and steady way that shows hard work

focuses more on high effort and concentration than on steady carefulness
strenuously
vsintensively
12 5.5

With great effort and determination

stresses concentration and attention rather than forceful energy
assiduously
vsintensively
5 7.7

To do something carefully and with steady effort

is about strong effort and concentration rather than careful attention
laboriously
vsintensively
5 6.6

With a lot of effort in a slow, tiring way

focuses on concentrated effort rather than tedium or slowness
arduously
vsintensively
1 7.8

In a way that needs great effort and long hard work

means focused effort rather than prolonged hardship
effortfully
vsintensively
5.4

In a way that uses a lot of physical or mental energy

stresses attention and concentration more than mere effort amount

Antonyms

116 1.6

Without much care or serious thought

103 2.5

In a relaxed, not very careful way

How Intense

deeply
590 1.8
intensively
8 3.9
moderately
47 2.8
mildly
92 2.7
lightly
86 1.0

Surface Forms

intensively positive

Morphology

intensively = intensive (transparent) = intense + ive + ly

Formed by adding the adverbial suffix '-ly' to the adjective 'intensive', a straightforward derivation understood by learners.

Etymology

Intensively comes from intense, a word that once meant 'to stretch' and is related to tension, giving the image of stretching all your energy into one thing. So, to do something intensively is to give it a lot of effort or close attention.